[Event "CRO Cup"] [Site "Mali Losinj"] [Date "2018.05.17"] [Round "2.11"] [White "Livaic, Leon"] [Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2497"] [WhiteTeam "Zagreb Mladost"] [BlackElo "2708"] [BlackTeam "Zagreb CC"] [Annotator "USER"] [Variant "From Position"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [FEN "2r3k1/1p3pp1/p2rb3/q2p4/3N3Q/3BPP2/7P/2Rn2K1 w - - 0 28"] [SetUp "1"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/xvNWRvku/jIOBrE65"] [Orientation "white"] { Even though Leon is a strong Grandmaster who has beaten many other Grandmasters in his career, arguably the biggest win of his career happened in the 2018 edition of the Croatian Cup Final, where he managed to beat none other but the legendary Ukrainian Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk. ----- To be fair, the victory was a bit lucky as Leon was getting outplayed for the larger portion of the game. However, on move 27, Ivanchuk somewhat carelessly took the rook on d1 with his knight - and a move later had to resign. Can you see the tactic that Ivanchuk missed that cost him the game? } 28. Nxe6 { That is it! This move simply removes the defender of the c8 rook and also threatens mate on h7. There is nothing Black can do! } { [%cal Rh4h7,Rc1c8] } 28... fxe6 { Recapturing the knight leads to mate } (28... Rxe6 29. Rxc8+) (28... Rxc1 { While taking the rook allows mate in 1 } 29. Qh7#) 29. Rxc8+ Kf7 30. Qf4+ { Sure you could make an argument that Leon was quite lucky here, but it is still a remarkable feat and therefore this game deserves fully to be on this list. } 1-0